The Effects of Bilateral EEG Biofeedback on Verbal, Visual-Spatial, and Creative Skills in Learning Disabled Male Adolescents

Abstract

Twenty-four learning disabled adolescent boys with verbal IQ deficiencies were pretested on measures of convergent and creative thinking, assigned to eight weekly, 21-minute sessions of one of two bilateral EEG biofeedback training conditions or a no-training control condition, and post-tested two months after the pretest. The EEG biofeedback training produced baseline effects in the presumably dysfunctional left hemisphere and had an impact on arousal in-task, suggesting remedial potential for the possible hemispheric arousal deficits in learning disabilities. Training the right hemisphere toward higher arousal and the left hemisphere toward lower arousal resulted in a notable improvement in arithmetic.